Awakening Your True Nature… with Eve Simmons

En masse climate actions send powerful messages, but so can singular efforts, as our glorious Greta Thunberg has proven. So if you can’t make it to a major #StrikeForClimate demonstration on September 20th (or even if you can), then #CloneGreta and DIY locally that day and repeatedly at anytime.Give yourself permission to hit the streets anytime with your sign (mine says “STRIKING FOR CLIMATE AWARENESS AND ACTION”). For maximum impact I’m encouraging people to do this often, as individuals or in small groups, in any pedestrian-safe, high-foot-traffic area. For example, in front of libraries, banks, post offices, at shopping centers, city halls, colleges, etc. Snap a photo of yourself with your sign and share on social media (as well as to local broadcast and print media if you’d like) to spread this idea and #CloneGreta This is something we can all do in any town, at any time. Meeting a friend for coffee? Bring your sign and sit outside:) PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! Thanks!!

Whether you’re a millennial or an elder, we’ve all got skin in the game when it comes to climate. Join us later today for “Lifestyles of the Successfully Sustainable: Saving the Planet and Your Sweet Existence” Thursday, April 18th, 2019, 4 – 5 pm, UCSD’s Pacific Hall #3500 , 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA. This talk is free and open to the public.

When a product gets more expensive, people use less of it. And when pollution goes down, economies rise. So let’s imagine something wonderful.

What if… we had a bill in Congress that charged fossil fuel companies for their pollution, and it worked so well that the GHG emissions the U.S. keeps launching into our atmosphere dropped by half in about 10 years?

What if that
same bill prevented millions of
premature deaths because our air was so much cleaner?

What if that
bill also helped protect our troops by keeping them out of harm’s way?

What if it created millions of clean energy jobs in the U.S.?

What if it
had a border policy that encouraged other countries to follow suit AND protected
U.S. jobs and U.S. companies?

What if this
bill was way stronger than our Paris commitments,
way more effective than the Clean Power
Plan (hitting its targets for 2030 in just 4 years instead of 10 years), and much
stronger than any EPA regulations – existing or pending?

What if 98% of the top economists all over the world said “This works. Pricing carbon is the biggest and most effective first step we could take toward solving the climate crisis.”?

Well we do.
Yes Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus, this bill is real, and it’s called the
Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR763.

OK now bear with me… what if, in order for this bill to pass, we had to take all that money that we got from the fossil fuel industry for polluting our atmosphere and give it to other wealthy corporations, or political pet projects, stuff we may not like? Hmm… not so much?

Oh really?
Knowing the severity and the urgency of the crisis we face, just how
badly DO we want to save humanity?

Or on second thought… what if we make this bill socially just as well?

How about we distribute all that money from the fossil fuel industries to EVERYONE, equally, so there’s less political resistance and this bill can actually become law? What if those who can least afford the increases in goods and services end up with MORE money in their pockets than before this bill goes into effect? In fact, those with the lowest incomes, the bottom 60%, would end up ahead. The rest would break even, and only those who could best afford it, those with the highest carbon footprint, would begin see an increase in their costs – that is UNTIL they lower their carbon footprint!

So how do
you like them apples?

No other
bill that’s ever been proposed has come close to this.

We’ll be correcting the market failure that’s been built into our economy by massive and needless subsidies to fossil fuel industries since before any of us were born. It’s revenue neutral, which Conservatives like because it doesn’t grow government. It’s socially just, which Progressives like because it lessens the hardship on those already most burdened. We actually have a shot at passing this groundbreaking bill into law. Please learn more about the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR763 at EnergyInnovationAct.org

We need each
of you to spread this knowledge and support this bill far and wide. This planet
is our home, shouldn’t we try?

Climate Change affects us all. Often those hardships are felt even more profoundly by those least able to adapt and recover quickly due to a lack of resources. Join us tomorrow, Saturday, April 13th, at 10 am. I’ll be speaking on our “Rights At Risk – Time to Take Action” to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Del Mar-Leucadia Branch, at the Encinitas Community and Senior Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Dr, Encinitas, CA All are welcome to this free event.

Isn’t he the cutest? I was so happy to see acclaimed environmental author and 350.org founder Bill McKibben again. This soft-spoken gentleman is one bad ass champion for our climate. Humanity owes him a huge debt. EnergyInnovationAct.org #PriceCarbon

I’m over the Moon to report that my Member of Congress, Rep. Mike Levin (D-49), has just joined an ever-growing field of policymakers to Cosponsor the Energy Innovation Act. Pricing carbon nationally in this socially just, and incredibly effective way is the biggest step we can take to significantly drop U.S. emissions quickly, and encourage other countries to do the same. It’s stronger than the Paris Accord, stronger than the Clean Power Plan, and it will lower carbon emissions far more than existing and pending EPA regulations. It protects family incomes, public health, and it creates jobs. When pollution goes down, economies rise. It’s exactly what we need right now. Please call, tweet (@MikeLevinCA), email, FB, Instagram, Mike to thank him for leading on climate. And urge your Congress member to do the same!